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Lars Magnar Enoksen

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Lars Magnar Enoksen (born 1960 in Malmö) is a Swedish writer and Glima [citation needed] wrestler.

Enoksen was born in Malmö in 1960 to a Swedish mother and Norwegian father.[citation needed] As an author, he has written extensively on runes and Nordic mythology,[1] although as a popular rather than academic writer. His work has received very varied reviews and critique from academics and experts in Old Norse studies and runology; while Runor: Historia, tydning, tolkning (~Runes:History, deciphering, interpretation) is described by Professor Henrik Williams [2] as the best introduction to runology written in Swedish,[3] later works like Runor: Mästarens handbok (~Runes, the Master's handbook) was reviewed by Williams as riddled with mistakes and errors that range from simplifications to the directly misleading.[4]

Lars_Lönnroth claims the books Djur och natur i fornnordisk mytologi (~Animals and nature in Norse mythology) and Vikingarnas egna ord ( In the Viking's own words), while certainly presenting fascinating myths and traditions on the way to be forgotten in a vivid and enthusiastic manner, are written entirely without insight of the modern research in the field as well as a lack of source criticism [5] and national romantic thinking derived from the 1900s.[6] Stefanie von Schnurbein wrote of Norrøne guder og myter[7] (2008) that: "we can find all the methodologically and historically problematic assumptions that had already vexed Germanophile scholarship in the 1930s and earlier, as well as feminist spirituality later on: The questionable idea that myth mirrors social structures, a lack of source criticism, unsupportable theories of continuity between pre-historic past and present society, not to mention the unfounded claims about the superiority of goddesses in the Norse pantheon."[8]

In 2000, he was awarded the Lengertz Literature Award (Lengertz litteraturpris),[9] which is awarded to authors who write on subjects relevant to Scania.


Bibliography

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  • Ärans blod 1988
  • Starkaters sista nidingsdåd 1989
  • Nattens drottning (1994)
  • Lilla runboken (1995)
  • Runor (1998)
  • Skånska runstenar (1999)
  • Fornnordisk mytologi enligt Eddans lärdomsdikter (2000)
  • Odens korpar (2001)
  • Skånska fornminnen (2001)
  • Vikingarnas egna ord (2003)
  • Vikingarnas stridskonst (2004)
  • Gudar och gudinnor i Norden (2005)
  • Djur och natur i fornnordisk mytologi (2006)
  • Lilla boken om runor (2008)
  • The secret art of Glima - an introduction to Viking martial arts (2008)
  • Stora boken om Vikingarnas gudar och myter (2008)
  • The History of Runic Lore (2011)
  • Runor: Mästarens handbok. Lund: Historiska media, (2015). ISBN 978-91-7545-317-0

References

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  1. ^ "Lars Magnar Enoksen". LIBRIS. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  2. ^ Johansson, Åke. "Henrik Williams - Uppsala University, Sweden". katalog.uu.se. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  3. ^ Johansson, Åke. "Henrik Williams - Uppsala University, Sweden". katalog.uu.se. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  4. ^ Williams, Henrik (2016). "Review of Lars Magnar Enoksen. 'Runor: Mästarens handbok'. Lund: Historiska media, 2015. 220 pp. ISBN 978-91-7545-317-0" (PDF). Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies (6): 187–192. ISSN 1892-0950.
  5. ^ Lönnroth, Lars (26 May 2003). "Enoksen hugger i sten när han tolkar vikingarnas runinskrifter". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  6. ^ Lönnroth, Lars (12 June 2006). "Naturmyter presenterade utan källkritik". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  7. ^ Enoksen, Lars Magnar (2008). Norrøne guder og myter. Oslo: Schibsted. ISBN 978-82-516-2515-9. OCLC 552959907.
  8. ^ Schnurbein, Stefanie v. (2016). Norse revival : transformations of Germanic neopaganism. Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-30951-7. OCLC 929864180.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ "Lengertz litteraturpris 1967–". Skaneshembygdsforbund (in Swedish). 28 May 2008. Archived from the original on 18 August 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2010.